How many people died during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge?
I’ve been trying to find online how many people died during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge but it keeps saying 11 people then 10 more people?? does that mean 21 altogether or is it just 11?
Strauss, head of the project, innovated the use of movable safety netting beneath the construction site, which saved the lives of many otherwise-unprotected steelworkers. Of eleven men killed from falls during construction, ten were killed (when the bridge was near completion) when the net failed under the stress of a scaffold that had fallen. Nineteen others who were saved by the net over the course of construction became proud members of the (informal) Halfway to Hell Club.
I am finding 12, a iron worker prior to the 11 that had the platform they were working on fall.
"In fact, it looked as though the bridge would be finished without the cost of a single life until tragedy struck only several months from the end. In October 1936, Kermit Moore, an ironworker, was crushed to death by a falling beam. Then, the following February, 11 men plunged to their deaths when the platform they were working on fell off the bridge and tore through the safety net"
References :
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/05/dayintech_0527
Strauss, head of the project, innovated the use of movable safety netting beneath the construction site, which saved the lives of many otherwise-unprotected steelworkers. Of eleven men killed from falls during construction, ten were killed (when the bridge was near completion) when the net failed under the stress of a scaffold that had fallen. Nineteen others who were saved by the net over the course of construction became proud members of the (informal) Halfway to Hell Club.
References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge